Wimzie's House

Overview

Wimzie's House is a Canadian children's television program which ran on YTV from 1995 to 1996, and in the United States on Public Broadcasting Service from October 1, 1997 to September 28, 2001. The show has also aired at least as early as 1995 and through the late-1990s on CBC Television, and on Radio-Canada. The show also aired on Nickelodeon's preschool programming block Nick Jr. from January 21, 2000 – April 26, 2002, and on CBS as part of Nick Jr. on CBS from September 16, 2000 – September 7, 2002, then returned after a four-year hiatus from September 17, 2005 and was seen through September 9, 2006. Reruns of the show currently air in the United States on qubo on January 7, 2008, and in Canada on the Cookie Jar Toons block on This TV and in syndication as part of the Cookie Jar Network block. The series was produced by Cinar, with the PBS telecasts presented by Maryland Public Television, and Children's Television Workshop from 1997 – 2000, then Sesame Workshop from 2000 – 2002. The show's puppetry is in the style of Sesame Street, which led to some legal troubles with The Jim Henson Company, in 1999.

Episodes

S01E01 Cookie Crisis

30 min
When Jonas and Wimzie accidentally drop Rouso's cookie tin and then lie about it, they end up getting into more trouble than if they told the truth in the first place.

S01E02 Boo!

30 min
Yaya starts a game of ""Boo"", in which you sneak up on an unexpecting person and yell ""BOO""! Wimzie tries the game on Jonas, who quickly dislikes the game because everytime he tries to play...

S01E03 The Magic Crayon

30 min
Yaya creates a pencil that writes on air for Horace, who isn't crazy about coming to daycare. Horace loves the pencil, but when he isn't watching Lou Lou finds it and gives it to Wimzie....

S01E04 I Want my Mommy!

30 min
It's Gratziella's day off, and she plans to have a playdate with the kids today. Unfortunately, here plans are interrupted when Bo comes down with an ear infection. She ends up spending a majority of...

S01E05 Flower Power

30 min
Wimzie and Jonas are awed by Rouso's own created flowers. Rouso has invented such flowers as Orca Orchid and Phillip Dandrum. Wimzie and Jonas decide to plant their own flower. Yaya gives them a ""tootlip""...

S01E06 Babies Have it Made

30 min
Wimzie is jealous because babies have it made. Bo has everything done for him, while she has to do for herself. Wimzie wishes she was baby, so at naptime, she has a dream that she...

S01E07 The Scaredy Cats, Woooo

30 min
Wimzie has her first sleepover, how exciting! She invites everyone, Lou Lou, Jonas, and Horace (Bo tags along too). Yaya even bakes special double chocolate chip cookies for the ocassion (and still makes sure Rouso...

S01E08 Treasure Hunt

30 min
Yaya has staged a treasure hunt. Each of the kids must find a hidden musical instrument before they can delve into Yaya's kazoo cakes. A restless Wimzie steals a bite and discovers to her regret...

S01E09 Horace, The Boy who Cried Wolf

30 min
Horace gets into habit of saying things are happening when they're not. This habit gets so out of hand that the kids stop believing him, even when he really sees what looks like a wolf...

S01E10 What's the Matter with Horace?

30 min
Horace arrives at Wimzie's house in a foul mood. But Horace's mood changes as he introduces his imaginary friend, Spike the Mosquito, whose parents had a yelling fight that morning, to the gang. Yaya realizes...

S01E11 You're not my Friend!

30 min
Wimzie, Jonas, Lou Lou, and Horace's friendship is in trouble when they exclude one another from certain games. Yaya is fed up, and separates each one from the others until they learn their lesson.

S01E12 It's Called to Share or Not to Share

30 min
Wimzie gets a new present in the mail, a musical camera. Everytime you take a picture, the camera plays a little tune. Wimzie doesn't wish to share her camera, so the other kids stop playing...

S01E13 The Plays the Thing

30 min
It's a rainy day, it's a rainy day. It's raining outside and the kids can't go out and play. This leaves them with nothing to do. Yaya comes up with the idea for the kids...

S01E14 The Lucky Pen

30 min
Jonas is getting better at his basketball shots. Rouso gives him a lucky pin as a reward. Jonas believe the pin brings him good luck, but when he miss places it, he runs into bad...

S01E15 Queen for a Day (a.k.a. The Sick Pest)

30 min
After Horace, Jonas, Lou Lou, Gratziella, Rouso, and Bo recover from a flu bug, Wimzie catches it. Wimzie is then sent to bed. Wimzie gets bored, even though she's been provided with toys, coloring books,...

S01E16 A Fishy Fish Story, Blub, Blub, Blub

30 min
Wimzie wants a pet so bad. She doesn't care if it's a dog, cat, or even elephant as long as she can have a pet. Yaya decides to purchase a daycare pet for all the...

S01E17 To Tell the Truth

30 min
Wimzie falsely accuses Bo of spilling something she was told not to touch. Feeling guilty, she confesses to Yaya, who tells her about the value of honesty.

S01E18 Jonas the Actor!

30 min
Wimzie starts a play, and wants all of her friends in it. They join in, but once discovered that the play will be presented in front of the entire neighborhood, Jonas fakes a sore throat,...

S01E19 Lou Lou Thinks Big! (a.k.a. All Alone)

30 min
Lou Lou is depressed because next to Bo, she's the smallest person at daycare. This excludes her some such events like playing board games, and ball games with the others. Lou Lou tries every which...

S01E20 You Just Gotta Keep Trying

30 min
Afer seeing a realistic portrait of Lou Lou, drawn by Wimzie, Lou Lou is determined to draw a realistic portrait of Wimzie. After many failed attempts, she doesn't give up. After watching Yaya playing a...

S01E21 A Medal for Horace (a.k.a. Happy Yaya Day)

30 min
Wimzie holds a ""Happy Yaya Day"" to let Yaya know how much they care about her, and appericiate her. Everyone gets her nice presents, but Horace forgets. Horace decides to give Yaya his special summersault...

S01E22 By the Numbers

30 min
A counting game has repercussions when everyone but Lou Lou can do it. She thinks that becoming more like Wimzie will enhance her abilities, but ultimately learns that it's much better to be yourself.

S01E23 I'm Really Mad at Dad

30 min
Rouso comes home from a two-week business trip. Everyone throws him a welcome home party. Bo missed him so much, he expresses his feelings by being mad a Rouso. When Rouso then unapproves Wimzie's current...

S01E25 Wimzie's Hushabye

30 min
Wimzie realizes she was wrong for not accepting Yaya's stuffed magical talking bird, Max, on it's own terms: that it would rather be a private special friend, than a public one. As a result, it...

S01E26 The Tattletales

30 min
Yaya eplains the difference between regular tattling, which she doesn't want to hear, and important ""tattling"", like when Horace bruises his knee, and no one tells Yaya.

S01E27 I Dare You!!!

30 min
Rouso goes into training at the firedepartment. One of the obstacles, is more of a dare he claims. Afterwards, Jonas and Horace get into an episode of daring each other to do stupid things. First,...

S01E28 We Want Toys! We Want Toys!

30 min
Wimzie see a commercial for a new toy called a Binga-Boinga, which is like the pogostick of the future. Wimzie wants one in the worst way, but Rouso says for Christmas, and Gratziella says for...

S01E29 The Personal Trainer 1,2,1,2,1,2

30 min
Jonas is so out of shape because he hasn't exercised in months. It starts to show when he can't even lift his dirt collection of the table. Wimzie becomes Jonas's new personal trainer. Everyday she...

S01E30 Jonas and All of His Hits

30 min
After Lou Lou accidentally made Jonas's ants run away, he has a very bad day. He is so mad, everytime someone displeases him, he hits them. He hits Lou Lou after they argue, and Rouso...

S01E31 Who Do You Trust? (a.k.a. No TV Contest)

30 min
Yaya has a No TV Contest. Lou Lou, Wimzie, and Horace fail. Jonas claims he didn't watch TV, and receives the prize, which is a Cosmic Piggie Power Ring. Jonas gets so excited, he tells...

S01E33 Wimzie's Three Wishes

30 min
Wimzie wishes innocently for Graziella and Rousso to spend their time at home, not at work. When both are laid off, Wimzie is frightened. Fearing that her family will be without food, Wimzie calls several...

S01E34 Who's the Boss

30 min
Jonas is appointed leader of building a spaceship, and his bossiness is causing a mutiny! He soon learns the difference between being a leader, and being a boss, and the kids finally build their spaceship...

S01E35 The Great Moving Day

30 min
Wimzie is excited because Mitzi Moonstar might be coming to daycare. But Gratziella and Rouso believe that Wimzie will be sad when she finds out that a neighbor is moving. Lou Lou over hears and...

S01E36 The Mighty Monster Power Piggies

30 min
Wimzie resists peer pressure by doing Tai Chi with Yaya while everyone else only wants to play Mighty Monster Power Piggies. The kids see the allure of doing something different, and the piggies disappear, for...

S01E37 Wimzie's Scary Dream

30 min
Making scary masks fills Wimzie's subconscious, as each time she sleeps, a scary dream confronts her.

S01E38 The Little Red Wimzie

30 min
While most of the kids are sitting around in boredom,Wimzie tries to arouse fun by setting up a tent outside. Graziella, too, has a way to keep busy.

S01E39 Friendship Day

30 min
While preparing for Friendship Day, the kids agree it's easy to be friends, until a series of misunderstandings make them so mad they don't even want to makeup.

S01E40 Bye, Bye Birdie

30 min
Rouso is awaken by Miss Ferris's nopisy cat out in their backyard. When Wimzie and the gang play outside, they find a dead bird. They learn that the cat killed the bird because their hunters...

S01E41 A Little Privacy, Please?

30 min
Wimzie accidentally plays an audiocassette recording of Yaya's diary. This leads Wimzie to ponder about privacy. Despite her friends' curiosities, Wimzie will not play any more of Yaya's diary…until Horace makes an offer no one...

S01E42 I'm Scared for Daddy

30 min
Rouso breaks his arm during a fire rescue. He rescued a boy's dad from a fire, the dad fell ontop of Rouso, breaking his arm. Rouso has the week off, and spends his time with...

S01E43 Bo Goes Bonkers!

30 min
Bo suddenly becomes so full of energy, and starts distracting Yaya, who is making puppets for the kids' puppet show. Wimzie and the gang offer to watch after Bo while she makes the puppets. Bo...

S01E44 Identical Cousins

30 min
The daycare gets a visit from Horace's twin cousin, Morris.

S01E45 Hand-me Down Sweater

30 min
It's trash day, and Rouso throws out stuff that's useless, but recycles things that are still useful. Lou Lou and Jonas both have new sweaters, but Lou Lou is sad because her's is just a...

S01E46 I Think I Forgot Something

30 min
When Wimzie causes Rouso to lose his memory by throwing the Blizzer Ball in the house, the children learn they should always report an accident to a grownup, even when it means they might get...

S01E47 Mommy's Afraid

30 min
Graziella is overwhelmed with the thought of test-flying a new plane and backs out. It plays on her psyche for days. At the same time, Horace has to gain confidence in himself, which in turn...

S01E48 The Stuke a Piddleys

30 min
Jonas gives Rousso a backstory. In the course of fantasizing a talk show, Wimzie acts bossy to Jonas, calling him a ""stookapiddlie"" *according to the captions). And things only go downhill from there. Jonas thinks...

S01E49 The Toothfairy

30 min
Horace's tooth comes loose, giving him the perfect oppertunity to meet the toothfairy in person. But she never comes since Horace stays awake. Yaya explains that the toothfairy only appears when you're sleep. But Horace...

S01E50 Wimzie's Late

30 min
Wimzie starts getting into a habit of being late. This causes trouble when she's late for getting sugar for cookies, and getting a book for storytime. Rouso takes the kids on a cruiseship, but since...

S01E51 The Great Cookie Caper

30 min
That Bo! He just can't leave other people's things alone. When Wimzie's special cookie disappears, she searches her friends' personal belonging without their permission and learns a lesson about accusing people without proof.

S01E52 Wimzie's Big Trip

30 min
Mitzi's mother has invited Wimzie on a journey to Dragon Park. Wimzie is overcome with the prospect of traveling. SONGS: It's Fun To Go Travelling, Disappointment.

S01E53 The Lost Bone

30 min
Wimzie finds that her effort and perseverance have paid off when she finally pronounces the word ""archeologist"" perfectly for the first time since her discovering and excavation of a horse bone in the garden.

S01E54 Official Backwards Day

30 min
Yaya holds an official backwards day. On this day, the kids dress upside out, and inside down. They also talk backwards, yes means no, no means yes, yay means boo, hello means goodbye, and she...

S01E55 Doctor Wimzie

30 min
Gratziella is sick in bed with a stomach virus. Wimzie then becomes Doctor Wimzie and keeps on checking on Gratziella non-stop. Gratziella wants to rest, but can't because of Wimzie's constant care. Yaya tells Wimzie...

S01E56 The Assistant Grown-Up

30 min
Wimzie doesn't want to go to bed early, and do little kid stuff anymore. So Yaya does an experiment to see how Wimzie likes having responsibilties like an adult. The next day at daycare, Yaya...

Cast

Bruce Dinsmore
Bruce Dinsmore
Horace (voice)
Holly Gauthier-Frankel
Holly Gauthier-Frankel
Loulou (voice)
Tyrone Benskin
Tyrone Benskin
Rousso (voice)
Sonja Ball
Sonja Ball
Wimzie (voice)
Jennifer Seguin
Jennifer Seguin
Graziella (voice)
Thor Bishopric
Thor Bishopric
Jonas (voice)
Jane Woods
Jane Woods
Yaya (voice)